Grant: The Making of a Legendary Military Leader

From the New York Times best-selling historian, a portrait of one of America’s most storied military leaders.

General of the Union army and later president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced challenges as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, a thwarted Reconstruction, the sordid early years of the Gilded Age, and the battle for African American freedom. Focusing on his greatest military achievement in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Grant offers fresh insight in...